A specialist disentanglement crew has freed a whale entangled off the NSW Central Coast. It is the second whale to be entangled off NSW in the past week.
Conservationists have pushed for improved protections for humpback whales along migration routes after a young whale was caught in fishing gear in the Antarctic. A researcher noticed that fishing gear and a number of buoys were entangled all over the whale's fluke (tail), where they were injuring and cutting its skin.